What's in an Estate Plan?

Estate planning is an often neglected but important part of your financial plan. An estate plan is about more than what happens with your assets after you die. It is also concerned with the way you structure your assets while you are still alive. Check to ensure you have taken care of the followi...

Farm Business Succession

The most common business structures that farming families run their farms in are: partnerships, and family trust What to look out for with succession planning for farming partnerships Farming partnerships are often husband and wife, or brothers, or sometimes father and son. But usually ...

What are the benefits of including testamentary trusts in a will?

The main benefits of incorporating testamentary trusts in a will are the asset protection and tax effectiveness they provide. This slideshow compares a "simple will" with a will that has testamentary trusts. Testamentary trusts in Australia from Val Antoff

Cost v. Value - $27,000.00 is a lot of money

All too often people focus on the cost of a service without realising the value of the service, and so it is with legal services. The availability of information on the internet tends to lull people into thinking that the use of legal services is either expensive or unnecessary when the informati...